Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.
Sessions
In this workshop, take a practical approach to creating fitness functions that assess the architectural soundness of your systems. We will learn about different fitness functions that can help architects and their teams create and comply with their architectural expectations expressed by their architect in collaboration with the team. Then we’ll see how we can implement those constraints, as guardrails, using ArchUnit and get a continuous feedback on the teams efforts.
There are many architectural patterns, from monoliths to distributed architectures. It can be daunting to choose between them. In this workshop we will discuss approaches we can take to evaluating which architectural pattern may apply to different applications, what those patterns are, and a method to arriving at the most suitable pattern that may be appropriate for different applications.
AI is being compared to major technological innovations of the past few centuries and its impact is being felt by the entire world. Focusing on us, the software developers, we are already seeing tremendous benefits, yet we're experiencing the effects of non-determinism and hallucinations. As technical people we see this somewhat differently than the non-technical folks. Yet, so much of what we do is greatly directed by those in charge, but not necessarily sufficiently informed.
AI is both a powerful and perilous tool. It has several benefits, but we have to know the power and limitations of using these tools. In this workshop, get a hands on experience on where AI serves us the best, where it may provide a marginal benefit, and where it may outright may not be the correct tool to use. We will work with several hands on exercises to explore and gain insights into using AI for many different software development related tasks.